Chapter 290 - Chapter 290: Chapter 298: Difference as Great as between Cloud and Mud (1/2)

Chapter 290: Chapter 298: Difference as Great as between Cloud and Mud

Su Wenyue placed Brother Xing in Mrs. Yang’s arms, and Mrs. Yang maintained that pose, stiffening her body, daring not to move, her eyes wide with delight. Yet she didn’t utter a word, aware of her own loud voice and fearing that a too-loud sound might scare the little grandson in her embrace.

“Mother, what’s the matter with you?” Su Wenyue chuckled as she looked at her mother-in-law, not understanding her condition. After all, it couldn’t be that she didn’t know how to hold the child; her mother-in-law had given birth and raised four sons herself and had plenty of experience doing so.

“Fourth Daughter-in-law, you, you take the child first,” Mrs. Yang whispered, and only when Su Wenyue had taken the child away did she breathe a sigh of relief.

“Mother, what’s this about?” Han Yu too found his mother’s behavior strange. It couldn’t be that she didn’t like her grandson, but such a reaction was quite odd, and he asked somewhat puzzled.

“Fourth Child, Fourth Daughter-in-law, don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I don’t like the child, it’s just that you’ve dressed him up so exquisitely. At first glance, he looks like a little immortal from a painting. I was honestly a bit afraid to touch him, worried I might break this dream-like reality,” she said.

Mrs. Yang, while speaking, glanced at Brother Xing, and then at Brother Chen and Sister Yu, who were being held by the Nanny. Although they were triplets, Brother Xing did seem a bit different. Brother Chen and Sister Yu were more alike but both were exquisitely adorable; she found joy in each one she looked at.

“This little one here is Sister Yu, isn’t she? She resembles her mother. So cute even when so small, she’ll grow up to be fairy-like, endearing to all. No wonder the in-laws and their mother cherish Fourth Daughter-in-law like a treasure. She must have been just like this as a child, who wouldn’t love such a child?”

Mrs. Yang went to touch Little Si Yu’s smooth cheek but stopped midway and retracted her hand. Their farmer hands were rough from working in the field; she didn’t want to chafe the child’s face.

“Right, this is Sister Yu. Since she was the last-born, she’s a little smaller than her two brothers, but now she’s been fattened up a bit. Sister Yu, this is Grandma; give Grandma a smile,” Su Wenyue said with a smile, fully aware that the child couldn’t understand the words but saying it for Mrs. Yang’s sake, to make her feel happy. Little did she know Sister Yu would actually smile, delighting Mrs. Yang immensely as she kept praising Little Si Yu’s intelligence. In reality, it was just a coincidence; Su Wenyue knew her own child well. Brother Xing might really understand, but Brother Chen and Sister Yu were just normal babies, at most a bit smarter than others, crying along when they heard their brother cry.

“She really smiled! How smart this child is, not like Third Child’s daughter, older by over a month, who knows only to eat, sleep, and cry all day long. She isn’t nearly as charming as Sister Yu,” Mrs. Yang said, unable to hide her disdain when mentioning Mrs. Wang’s daughter.

Su Wenyue wasn’t surprised. With a mother like Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Yang’s preference for boys over girls, it would be strange if she liked the child. She didn’t have much to say about it; after all, it was just a baby. Even if she had grievances with Mrs. Wang, it wouldn’t extend to the child. Moreover, because she was a daughter, Mrs. Wang wasn’t attentive to the child who was being raised so skinny and small, truly pitiable.

In this aspect, Mrs. Wang was far from Mrs. Liu’s equal. Even though Mrs. Liu had given birth to two daughters and was somewhat dismissive of them verbally, she did take good care of them properly and didn’t neglect them. However, that was a matter from a previous life. In this life, Su Wenyue had just returned to the village and had not yet seen Mrs. Wang’s children; she didn’t know if it was the same as in her past life.